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Runaway Daily
Posts Tagged 'climate progress'
Climate Change Strategy for Nonprofits
Posted on October 13, 2011 in Organizational strategy, What is RCC
Nonprofits need to consider their entire “environment” when planning for the future. This means the natural environment as well as the state of the economy, business and political trends, and funding prospects.
I think that climate change is going to become a much bigger issue in the next few years, and that it will affect the economy, business, politics, and society much more than it has to date. In doing so, it will affect the mission of most nonprofits – and funding prospects for all nonprofits.
Why Al Gore Was Wrong
A few years ago, Al Gore came out with An Inconvenient Truth – a presentation, book, and movie about climate change. He said that we have to cut CO2 emissions to keep climate change within a limit of 2C (3.2F) of warming. If we didn’t, the world would go into “runaway climate change” – fast, out-of-control warming, melting of the polar ice caps, sea level rise, and extreme weather.
Not Necessarily the News
Posted on May 2, 2011 in Miscellaneous
SPUR planner cites 5M sea level rise
Today I began researching news about runaway climate change on the Web – and the bad news is, there is no news.
A search on the term “runaway climate change” for the last 24 hours, using Google News, yielded no results. None. Zip. Nada.
This is sad. Runaway climate change means that human-generated warming has set off new processes in nature. These processes, if the “runaway” assertion is true, have their own momentum. Warming from these processes will continue, whether human-generated warming continues or not. The Earth will warm by at least several more degrees, with huge consequences for humanity, no matter what. (Slowing or stopping human-generated warming would still slow warming in the coming years, greatly easing sustainability crises, and perhaps limiting the ultimate extent of warming that occurs.)
Arctic Methane Leak: But I Feel Fine*
Posted on March 5, 2010 in Hotspots
The world has had a hard time accepting the dangers of global warming, let alone the possibility of tipping points, whose exact characteristics need further research. But scientists and advocates have also mentioned, somewhat tentatively, that there might well be other risks we incur as the world warms – “unknown unknowns”, in Rumsfeldian terms.
Now a large “unknown unknown” has reared its very ugly head. The oceans of the world routinely release methane, from a variety of processes, as do the soils. A new paper, published today in the journal Science, reports that the East Siberian Arctic Ice Shelf, a 2 million square mile area of the Arctic Sea north of Siberia, is releasing as much methane as the rest of the world’s oceans combined. According to Dr. Natalia Shakhova, lead author of the paper, the release is about 7 teragams, or about 7 million tonnes, of methane annually.
